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Comment on Fetch It! CD about to be released by Fender Blues Deluxe

Fender Blues Deluxe — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:40:29 +0000

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Comment on Fetch It! CD about to be released by Colorado Springs Co

Colorado Springs Co — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:43:47 +0000

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Comment on Seeing, hearing, playing music by chezztone

chezztone — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:08:28 +0000

Pilk — Always good to hear from you. If you are having fun watching youtube music instruction and using your electronic tuner, fine, you’re not hurting anyone. But if you are trying to become a great player you are on the wrong path, sorry. Talk to great players, or read interviews with them, and find out how they learned and how they tune. Thanks for reading and responding! Cheers, SC

Comment on The world didn’t owe him nothing by Pilk

Pilk — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:36:05 +0000

Steve
Really enjoyed this piece. I am now going to research this guy and buy that book. Sounds like some excellent reading. Thanks for turning me onto it. I agree with James!…glad to see you are still writing. thoroughly enjoy your style of writing and the content you choose to write about.

See ya in July
Pilk

Comment on Seeing, hearing, playing music by Pilk

Pilk — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:36:46 +0000

Steve
I hear what you’re saying, yet I don’t agree with all of it. (Mostly the internet thing) This doesn’t in any way mean that I think you are wrong, I simply believe that some people learn better in certain environments. Maybe people who work long hours don’t have the time to sit down with a record and figure out what chords and notes are being played. Using an online teacher to help you figure out what is being played can be very helpful and save a lot of time transcribing what you are hearing. I will say that the more you listen to music and play music, the better you will become at figuring out what is being played. I think the tuner is a great tool to help you learn what your “E” string, etc… should sound like. Yes in time you will be able to “hear” what a correctly tuned instrument sounds like, but initially I believe it saves time and teaches what correct tuning sounds like. Having a “real” live person as a teacher is a fantastic way to learn an instrument, but using a youtube teacher can be very useful also. Personal teachers are quite expensive. There are a lot of great youtube teachers out there who devote their time freely or for nominal fees especially where music theory is concerned. In learning how to play music on an instrument there are many, many tools: A tuner can be a good tool, Youtube can be a good tool, private lessons by a live teacher can be a good tool, records can be a good tool, books can be a good tool, jamming with your buddies can be a good tool, metronomes and drum machines can be a good tool, so on and so forth. Take all the tools you can find and implement them as often as you can, but most of all practice, practice, practice. Summing it up I would say there is no “one” way to learn how to play music on an instrument. I don’t disagree that “listening” to music is a great way to learn how to play it, I do disagree that the other tools mentioned have no merit.

See ya in Vegas
Pilk

Comment on Talent Is Overrated notes by Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:39:00 +0000

Wow – I am finding it hard to read the comments left by your readers, as it seems that they want to refute the findings of the book without actually considering the evidence that was laid out so carefully in it. It felt like they were insulted at the conclusions of the book, and therefore had to seek to undermine them.

I thought that the book was excellent in laying out a consistent, challenging and understandable set of evidence for the development of high performance skills in many areas of expertise. The difficulty that I had in reading the book was recognizing how unlikely it would be that I would be able to undertake the kind of deliberate practice required in any area of my life to become truly great at it. But this isn’t stopping me from doing what I can to distill what I can from it and apply it as far as I can.

There are too many books out there that make claims without any evidence – this is not one of them. It is worth reading by anyone who wants to understand the mechanics of getting better at stuff – I find it hard to believe that people exist who don’t fit that category in some way.

Comment on Heading back to Mississippi! by Jim C

Jim C — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:41:56 +0000

So, how was it?

Comment on Review of Blues Traveling, third edition by John Rogers

John Rogers — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:47:40 +0000

I’m loving it and using it. blueshwy.blogspot.com

Comment on Flying with your guitar by MJ

MJ — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:43:59 +0000

reading and following your advice, as i’m flying 2 the states for a guitar-teaching counselor job (at the camps) and was thinking on getting a new Fender there (in Mexico, its costs over 30% its price, and there’ no variety)…

let’s see how it works XD

Comment on Calendar by New CD; new book! » Steve Cheseborough

New CD; new book! » Steve Cheseborough — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:28:13 +0000

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